NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 38·37.
[65] Aikin’s Nat. Hist. of the Year.
February 20.
The ways of the Season.
The roads now are usually heavy, that is, the thaws have so entirely liberated the water in the earth, that the subsoil, which had been expanded by the action of the frost, becomes loosened, and, yielding mud to the surface, increases the draught of carriages. Now, therefore, the commissioners and agents who execute their duty have full employment, and the highways afford employment to a large number of persons who are destitute of their customary labour, or unfit for other work.
Travelling in Ireland.
